“I have not endorsed Tinubu” – Dele Momodu says 

Ovation magazine publisher and presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Dele Momodu, has slammed the media handlers of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, for passing off an article he wrote about him in 2019 as an endorsement of his 2023 presidential ambition.

The article written by Momodu on October 26, 2019 argued that Tinubu was eminently qualified to contest the presidency.

Momodu wrote on his Instagram page on Saturday that though he didn’t know who the media handlers of Tinubu were, he could reasonably confirm that they had been ‘fumbling too much by being so cheap, unimaginative and jejune in their campaigns.’’

He wondered if they were not ashamed that several people had publicly denied endorsing Tinubu for the 2023 presidential election.

He wrote, “An article I wrote two years ago about Tinubu has suddenly become a fresh endorsement in 2022. What chicanery is this? While I have tremendous respect for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, his handlers have no right to engage in pure mischief by abusing our relationship. They have even made pamphlets of my article. But unknown to them, a lot of water has passed under the bridge since I wrote the article and I have my cogent reasons for not joining the APC-President  Muhammadu Buhari’s divisiveness and the culpable silence of Tinubu and  the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo in condoning his excesses and keeping mute in the face of barefaced tyranny. Southern leaders who crave to be President have failed to protect their own people from blistering attack they have endured under the Buhari government, most especially people of the South-East.’’